Maharashtra Board Standard Two -English balbharati

The Coordination Committee formed by G.R. No. Abhyas - 2116/(Pra.Kra.43/16) SD - 4
Dated 25.4.2016 has given approval to prescribe this textbook in its meeting held on 19.03.2019 and it

has been decided to implement it from the Academic Year 2019-20.

BALBHARATI

Standard TWO

Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and
Curriculum Research, Pune.

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textbook and useful audio-visual teaching-learning material of the
relevant lesson will be available through the Q. R. Code given at the
end of each lesson of this textbook.

First Edition : 2019 © Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and

Curriculum Research, Pune - 411 004.

The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production
and Curriculum Research reserves all rights relating to
the book. No part of this book should be reproduced
without the written permission of the Director, Maharashtra
State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum
Research, ‘Balbharati’, Senapati Bapat Marg, Pune 411004.

Chief Coordinator: Study Group Members :
Smt. Prachi Ravindra Sathe Smt. Sanjivani Pawar
Smt. Ashfiya Siddiqui
English Language Committee : Smt. Harsha Chavan
Smt. Mangala Barave
Smt. Hemalata Honwad, Chairperson Shri. Nilesh Kedare
Dr Rohit Kawale, Member Shri. Pradip Patil
Dr. Manjushree Sardeshpande, Member Smt. Manjusha Bodele
Dr Shruti Chaudhary, Member Shri. Rahul Surwase
Shri. Shridhar Nagargoje, Member Smt. Vinita Narang
Dr Muktaja Mathkari, Member Smt. Neelima Patil
Dr. Dipak Damodare, Member Shri. Gajanan Bodhe
Dr. Ibrahim Nadaf, Member Dr. Godavari Ugale
Dr. Sangita Ghodake, Member Shri. Sultanchaand Shaikh
Smt. Arundhati Garud, Member Smt. Pooja Thakare
Shri. Santosh Pawar, Member-Secretary Smt, Manasi Bhosale
Shri. Jagdish Kumbhar
Cover : Shri. Rajendra Girdhari Smt. Preeti Khandelwal
Illustrations : Shri. Yashwant Deshmukh Smt. Renu Dhotre
Smt. Suwarna Kulkarni
Shri. Pradip Ghodake Smt. Meenakshi Kharatmol
Shri. Manoj Pawar Shri. Narayan Mangalaram
Shri. Rakesh Salunkhe
Co-ordination : Shri. Santosh Natikar
Santosh J. Pawar Shri. Zuber Kazi
Assistant Special Officer English Smt. Jayanti Jog
Dr. Deepali Deshmukh
Production : Shri. Pavankumar Korde
Sachchitanand Aphale Smt. Anita Marathe
Chief Production Officer Smt. Gourangi Sawant
Smt. Anjali Awadhutkar
Sachin Mehta Smt. Amruta Naik
Production Officer Smt. Shweta Solapurkar
Nitin Wani
Assistant Production Officer

Publisher :
Vivek Uttam Gosavi
Controller
Maharashtra State Textbook Bureau,
Prabhadevi, Mumbai - 400 025.





Preface

Dear Children,

I am sure you enjoyed learning from and reading ‘English
Balbharati’ in Standard One. Now you are in Standard Two. Let me
welcome you to Standard Two this year. We are happy to place this
textbook English Balbharati for Standard Two in your hands.

I am happy and eager to see your excitement when you receive
‘English Balbharati’ in Standard Two this year.

You learnt melodious songs, rhymes and poems in Standard One.
You listened to exciting stories and enacted them in the classroom and at
home too. You were completely engaged in doing interesting activities
given in the book. All those activities helped you in listening, speaking,
reading well and prepared you for writing.

Well, this year too, you are going to have plenty of fun while
learning English. This textbook is a treasure box, full of interesting stories
of birds, animals, children, parents and grandparents too. The poems and
stories talk to you about the real world as well as an imaginary world of
trees, fairies, children and their dreams. You can tell your own stories to
your teacher and classmates too. You will learn new words and phrases.
You will also learn to use them orally and then write them. You will have
fun matching pictures with words, solving riddles and playing games.
You will learn to ask questions to guess the answers. Q. R. Codes have
been given to songs, stories, picture reading and other activities too.

You will love the colourful pictures. As a matter of fact, I am sure,
you will enjoy everything about this book.

By the end of this year, you will be already looking forward to the
next English Balbharati textbook for Standard Three..

Have fun, enjoy and learn a lot my dear children. Wish you all the
best for your studies!

Pune (Dr Sunil Magar)
Date : 6 April, 2019
Gudhi Padva Director
Indian Solar Year : Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook
16 Chaitra, 1941 Production and Curriculum Research, Pune.

For Teachers / Parents

Dear Teachers,
You must be happy to see the new textbook ‘English Balbharati’ for

Standard Two. Here are a few suggestions for you, before you enter the
classroom.

1. Please read the entire book carefully. The selection of all the stories,
poems, dialogues and activities has been done with extreme care to
facilitate ‘Language Learning’.

2. Children have an innate curiosity and desire to learn, which needs to be
encouraged further in the classroom.

3. Please motivate children to participate in all the activities and allow
them to make mistakes.

4. Insisting on ‘correct’ or ‘right’ answers must always be avoided because
it discourages children from speaking in English.

5. Please encourage children to work in pairs and groups most of the time.

6. Use all the resources available. For some of the lessons which are related
to nature, you may take the students out in the surrounding.

7. There are many open-ended questions and activities. Please accept
different and unique responses that children give, instead of expecting
uniform responses from them.

8. The more opportunities you create for children to practise their listening
and speaking skills, the happier they will be while learning.

9. There are plenty of activities which will help you in preparing children
for reading and writing. Please repeat them as often as you can.

10. Please note that there are stories and pictures of persons such as ‘woman
pilot’ ‘male chef’ ‘police woman’ etc. please talk about them and draw
children’s attention to these social changes.

11. There are a few drawing and colouring activities in the book. Please feel
free to create more such opportunities for children.

12. Music inspires creative minds and calms down agitated minds. Play
soothing music in the classroom whenever it is possible.

13. Last but not the least, let’s do away with the assumption – ‘Children do
not understand.’

Enjoy the entire book. Wish you all the best!

English Balbharati - Standard Two - Learning Outcomes

Suggested Pedagogical Processes Learning Outcomes

The learner may be provided opportunities The learner -

in pairs/groups/ individually and encouraged 02.03.01 Recites and sings songs and rhymes
with actions.
to -
02.03.02 Responds to comprehension
• sing or recite songs, poems and rhymes with questions related to stories and
action collectively. poems in English.

• listen to stories and humorous incidents and 02.03.03 Expresses verbally her/his opinion
interact in English or mother tongue (home and asks questions about the
language). characters, storyline etc. in English

• ask simple questions about characters, 02.03.04 Draws or writes a few words or short
places, the sequence of events in the story. sentences in response to poems and
(Ensure clear lip movement for children with stories.
hearing impairment so that they can lip read.)
02.03.05 Listens to English words, greetings,
• respond orally in mother tongue, English, polite forms of expression and
sign language or non-verbal expressions. responds in English.

• write 2-3 simple sentences about stories or 02.03.06 Listens to instructions and draws a
poems. picture.

• look at scripts in a print rich environment like 02.03.07 Composes and writes simple, short
newspapers, tickets, posters etc. sentences with space between words
and letters.
• develop phonemic awareness through
activities focusing on different sounds, 02.03.08 Guesses the meanings using the
emerging from the words in stories and texts. given context.

• listen to short texts from children’s section of 02.03.09 Speaks confidently about herself/
newspapers, read out by the teacher. himself or topics of her/his choice.

• listen to instructions and draw a picture. 02.03.10 Uses stock expressions in face to
face interaction.
• speak and write English, talk to their peers
in English, relating to festivals and events at 02.03.11 Expresses her/his personal needs,
homes and schools. feelings etc.

• enrich vocabulary in English mainly through 02.03.12 Conducts/tries out simple activities
telling and re-telling stories and folk tales. in the classroom under the guidance
of a teacher.
• use appropriately pronouns related to
gender such as ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘his’, ‘her’, and 02.03.13 Narrates a story with the help of
demonstrative pronouns such as ‘this’, ‘that’, clues.
‘these’, ‘those’; and prepositions such as
‘before’, ‘between’ etc. 02.03.14 Enacts a familiar story / skit / playlet
or event.
• read cartoons/ pictures/comic strips with or
without words independently. 02.03.15 Reads words, phrases, sentences
correctly.
• write 2-3 sentences describing common
events using adjectives, prepositions and 02.03.16 Writes words, phrases and sentences.
sight words like “This is my dog. It is a big
dog. It runs behind me.” 02.03.17 Writes a guided composition.

Inside the Book . . . . .

UNIT ONE UNIT THREE

1.1 Bridge 3.1 Mice
1.2 Activity Time 3.2 Activity Time
1.3 Let’s Speak 3.3 Let’s Speak
1.4 Story time - Yash and Moti 3.4 Story time - Nina’s Dream
1.5 Language Study 3.5 Language Study
1.6 I Love Little Pussy 3.6 Five Little Seeds
1.7 Let’s Speak 3.7 Let’s Speak
1.8 Reading Time 3.8 Reading Time
1.9 Writing Skill 3.9 Writing Skill

UNIT TWO UNIT FOUR

2.1 Chameleons 4.1 Catch them, if you can!
2.2 Activity Time 4.2 Activity Time
2.3 Let’s Speak 4.3 Let’s Speak
2.4 Story Time - Unity Is 4.4 Story Time - What Do You
See?
Strength. 4.5 Language Study
2.5 Language Study 4.6 My Telescope
2.6 Friends Forever 4.7 Let’s Speak
2.7 Let’s Speak 4.8 Reading Time
2.8 Reading Time 4.9 Writing Skill
2.9 Writing Skill

1.1 Bridge UNIT
ONE
• Listen and recite the poem with actions.

Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky,
Are prettier than these.
There are bridges on the rivers,
As pretty as you please;
But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these.

- Christina Rossetti

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a. Write down the things that have following colours.

Violet

Indigo

Blue

Green

Yellow

Orange

Red

• Look and say. sky sea clouds
across earth
river bow overtops

bridges heaven

prettier ships

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1.2 Activity Time

a. Let’s play.

1. Form pairs.
2. Close your eyes. Now one of you put your finger on any letter on

the blue card.
3. Now your partner will put the finger on any letter on the pink

card.
4. Open your eyes.
5. Now each one of you has one letter of the alphabet.
6. Each pair has two letters.
7. Write as many words as you can which have both the letters you

picked.

a e i bcdf g h j k l m
n p qr s t v w x
ou
yz

bat, tall, table

goat, dog,
frog

sit, fish, is,

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b. Think and answer.

Teacher : Good morning children.
Children : Good morning teacher.
Teacher : What is your name?
Tejal : My name is Tejal.
Teacher : What is the first letter of your name?
Tejal : ‘T’.
Teacher : What is the last letter of your name ?
Tejal : ‘l’.
Teacher : How many letters are there in your name?
Tejal : Five.
Teacher : Tell any word that begins with the first

letter of your name.
Tejal : Tiger.

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Weflrcioenmdisng 1.3 Let’s Speak

Hello, everyone! Hello, I am
Good morning! Pramod.
Hi, I am Siddhu.
I am Satish. I am new in the
school.

I am Pranav.
I am also new in

this school.

I am Sharwari.
Nice to meet
you my friends.
Welcome to our

school.

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Where do you I live near
live ? the market.

I live next to
our school.

I live in Ram
Nagar.

So nice, we all
live near by.

• Where do you live ?

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1.4 Story Time - Yash and Moti

• Listen and repeat.

Yash was happy.
His mother bought him new shoes.
He woke up early in the morning.
He went out to look at his new shoes.
‘‘Oh, no!’’ He cried.
‘‘There is only one shoe here!
Where is my other shoe?’’
He looked everywhere.

He couldn’t find it.
He sat outside on a step and sobbed.
Just then Moti came and started
wagging his tail. He barked.
‘‘Bow wow!’’
Yash looked at Moti.
‘‘Moti, have you seen my shoe?’’

‘‘Bow wow!’’ Moti barked
and ran to a tree in the front
yard. Yash followed Moti.

There was a hole under
the tree.

Yash saw his shoe in the
hole.

A big, fat rat had carried
it there.

Yash picked it up.

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‘‘Thank God!’’ he said.

‘‘The rat has not nibbled my shoe! It
is in good condition.’’

‘‘Bow wow!’’ Moti agreed.

‘‘Thank you, Moti,’’ said Yash.

a. Find the words in the story which mean:
1. bitten / cut off with teeth :
2. cried noisily :

b. Answer in a word or a phrase.
1. Who bought new shoes for Yash ?
2. How did Yash feel then ?
3. Why was Yash sobbing ?
4. Who had carried Yash’s shoe to the hole ?

c. Put the following sentences in the correct order.

1. There is only one shoe here.

2. Yash saw his shoe in the hole.

3. Yash followed Moti.

4. His mother gave him new shoes.

5. ‘‘Thank you, Moti’’, said Yash.

• Look and say.

shoes morning sobbed wagging

barked yard nibbled condition

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Nwamoridnsg 1.5 Language Study

a. Listen carefully and answer the following questions.

What is your name ?

Are you a boy or a girl ?

Who all are there in your family ?

Which places do you like to visit ?

Which is your favourite animal ?

What do you like to eat ?

What is your favourite toy ?

Do you write with a pen or a pencil ?

All the answers are naming words.
Naming words are simply names
of anything.

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• Let’s play

Let’s form four groups. Now pick up any one of the cards.
Write down as many names as you can, related to your card.
You may discuss with your group members.
When you finish call ‘Bingo’.
The group with the maximum number of examples will win.

name place animal thing

name place animal thing

Amit Pune Cat Ball

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• Read the following passage carefully. Underline the names

of people, places, things, fruits etc.

Today is Raju’s birthday. He is getting ready for
the school. His mother gives him a mango plant in
a pot. All his friends wish Raju in the school. They
sing ‘Happy Birthday’ with their teacher. Then the
teacher takes them to the backyard and plants the
mango plant there. Everyone claps for him.

• Look and say. mango

today birthday school

plant pot friends teacher

backyard everyone

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1.6 I Love Little Pussy

• Listen, sing and act.
I love little Pussy,

Her coat is so warm.
And if I don’t hurt her,
She’ll do me no harm.

So I’ll not pull her tail,
Nor drive her away.
But Pussy and I,
Very gently will play.

I’ll sit by the fire,
And give her some food.
And Pussy will love me,
As I am gentle and good.

I love my little Pussy very much.

a. Listen and repeat the rhyming words.
warm - harm
away - play
b. Do you have a pet? What is its name?
c. Tell a few sentences about your favourite animal.

• Look and say.

warm hurt harm drive

gently fire tail

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1.7 Let’s Speak

• Listen, repeat and enact.
Ashwini : May I go out to play, Aai ?
Aai : Yes, you may.

Ashwini : Baba , I want to eat a piece of
cake. May I?

Baba : Yes, you may, but after dinner
and then brush your teeth.
Ashwini : Ok, Baba .

Mohini : May I have two tickets, please?
Ticket Seller : Yes, you may. Here they are.

Tina : May I borrow your pencil?
Reena : Yes, sure. Here it is.
Tina : Thank you, Reena.

Shyam : May I pluck those flowers?
Gardener : Sorry, you may not.

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1.8 Reading Time on the wall. Our

• Read aloud.
This is my classroom. There is a big

teacher writes on it with a . The teacher has a to keep her
books on. She also has a
to sit on. She is busy the whole day.

We have to sit on and to keep our on.

Our classroom has a and two .

There are many charts on the walls. The charts display children’s
work on various topics. Our teacher also shows us short films, songs
and stories with the help of the projector. It is fun to watch the films.

There is a near the wall. We keep our material there. There

is a in the corner. We keep our classroom clean.

a. Draw pictures of the things in your classroom.
b. Describe your classroom in five sentences with

the words given below.
• Look and say.

board chalk table chair

benches desks books door

windows cupboard dustbin

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CoPmicptuosrietion 1.9 Writing Skills

What is a
picture

composition?

Describing a picture with
meaningful sentences.

There is a big garden.
Many children are playing in
the garden.
Some children are playing hide
and seek.
There are many trees in the
garden.
There are birds sitting on the
tree.

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a. Describe the picture.

Bhaurao is a farmer. He has a small farm.

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2.1 Chameleons UNIT

• Listen and repeat. TWO

Chameleons are seldom seen,

they’re red,

they’re orange,

then they’re green,

they’re one of nature’s strangest sights,

their colours change like traffic lights.

- Colin West

Activity a. Colour the picture.

b. Say the rhyming words. sights
• seen - green • sights - lights

• Look and say.

chameleons seldom strangest

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2.2 Activity Time

a. Look and read.

mango rose lotus potato

onion tomato rabbit grapes

jasmine snake marigold elephant

guava apple cucumber tiger

b. Write the above naming words in the given groups.

Fruits Vegetables Animals Flowers

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• Who am I?

1. I have two hands
but I can’t clap.
Who am I ?
2. I fly without wings
and have a long tail.
Who am I ?
3. I have a bushy tail and
like to eat nuts.
Who am I ?
4. I can easily eat leaves from the tall trees.
I don’t have to climb. I have a long trunk.
Who am I ?
5. I have two horns and four legs.
I work on the farm.
Who am I?

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2.3 Let’s Speak

a. Look at the pictures and say 2 - 3 lines about them.

doctor policewoman

conductor farmer

soldier chef

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2.4 Story Time - Unity Is Strength.

• Listen, repeat and enact.

An old man lived with his four sons
in a village. The old man was worried.
His sons were always quarrelling
with each other. They would never
agree on any point. The old man had
tried telling them many times to avoid
fighting. But his sons would not listen
to him. They would fight for everything.

One day, he called his four sons. He
gave them a small bundle of sticks, and
asked them to break the bundle into two.
“It’s so easy,” said the eldest son. He took
the bundle and tried to break it. He was
surprised that the sticks in the bundle
remained unbroken. He used more force.
He tried again and again. But the bundle
of sticks did not break. He gave up.

Then his brothers tried to break the bundle of sticks. They tried
hard but they too could not succeed.

Their father smiled and asked them to untie the bundle. Now the
sticks were separated. He gave each brother a single stick and asked
them to break it. Each of the sons took a stick in hand. In no time, the
sticks were bent and broken.

“A single stick is easily broken. If
four sticks come together, it is impossible
to break them. If you are united, help
each other and live in friendship, you
will be stronger than any enemy. But if
you are divided among yourselves and
keep fighting, you will be as weak as the
single stick in that bundle. Remember,

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united we stand, divided we fall.” said
the old man, giving his sons a meaningful
look.

This time the brothers learnt a lesson.
They stopped fighting with each other.
They started to work together as a team
and that really helped them.

a. Answer the following.
1. Why was the old man worried?
2. What happened when the sons tried to break the bundle of the

sticks?
3. What happened with the single sticks?
4. What lesson did the sons learn?

b. Arrange the following words in a proper order to make a
meaningful sentence.

1. worried man was old The.
The old man was worried.
2. everything for fight They would .

3. sticks of The bundle did break not.

4. easily broken stick A single is.

5. stand, divided fall United we we.


c. Find the small words hidden in the big word.

1. everything - every thin very thing

2. friendship -

3. separated -

4. together -

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d. Read the following sentences. Change the coloured words
with new words to form a new sentence.

1. The old man was worried.
a. The young woman was happy.
2. He took the bundle and tried to break it.

3. An old man lived with his four sons in a village.

4. This time the brothers learnt a lesson.

5. He gave them small sticks.


e. Write the words that tell us something about the words
at the center.

old big tree pink
man flower

• Look and say.

worried quarrelling agree bundle
sticks surprised unbroken impossible
united friendship

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Describing 2.5 Language Study
words

• Let’s know.

A Mango is yellow in colour.
It is very sweet in taste.

A Rose is red.
It is very beautiful.

These are four pencils.
We use sharp pencils to write.

A Dog is a clever and loyal animal.

Words in bold describe about each item.
They are describing words.

a. Match the following.

sharp rose

clever pencil

sweet dog

red mango

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b. Using the given pictures, write the correct describing word
from the words given in the box.

eight red big green old

This is a ball.

An apple is in colour.

He is an man.

These are bananas.

This is a parrot.

c. Fill in the blanks with correct describing word.

1. Green vegetables and fruits are for health.

2. There are stars in the sky.

3. Ants are very .

4. I have a pen.

• Look and say.

yellow sweet red beautiful

four sharp clever loyal

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2.6 Friends Forever

• Listen, sing and act.

Make new friends,
But keep the old.

One is silver,
And the other gold.

A circle is round,
It has no end.

That’s how long,
I will be your friend.

Across the land,
Across the sea.
Friends forever,
We’ll always be.

a. Find and write the rhyming words.

1. old - 2. sea - 3. end -

b. How many friends do you have?
Tell 5-6 sentences about your friend.

• Look and say.

friends silver land forever

circle round across
gold
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2.7 Let’s Speak

• Let’s make Bhel ! I would like to
bring kurmura.
Children, let’s
make Bhel tomorrow.
Who would like to bring
kurmura? (puffed rice)

And who would Teacher, I would
like to bring like to bring
‘farsan’ ? farsan.

What are the other tomatoes onions coriander
things needed to leaves

make Bhel?

Teacher, I

Now, tell me who would would like to
like to bring chopped bring chopped
tomatoes and onions ? Teacher, I onions.

would like to
bring chopped
tomatoes.

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And who would like to likTceeoatrociahbnerdri,neIgr wlcehoaouvpledps.ed
bring chopped coriander

leaves?

Wonderful! Children, I Yummy
would like to bring salt,
lemon juice, a big bowl,

spoons and plates.

Yeah!
What fun!

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2.8 Reading Time

a. Read the following words and match them with their pictures.
Harmonium
Tabla-dagga
Veena
Mridang
Piano
Flute
Cymbals

b. Read the following sentences aloud.

1. Vishal plays the well.

He cannot play the violin.

2. Sanjana plays the well.

She cannot play the piano.

3. Shubham plays the well.

He can play the harmonium too.

4. My mother learns vocal music.

She plays the when she sings.

5. My friend plays the in the school band.

He cannot play the mridang.

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WStroitriyng 2.9 Writing Skill

• Learn with fun.
• Which different stories do you know?
• Tell any one of the stories you know.
• Note down the important words from the story.

a. Complete the following story with the help of hints given in the

bracket.
(wandered, my friend, the monkey, be his friend, too big, the rabbit,

was too big, save other weak animals, to solve the problem,
went back to the other animals, together and said)

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The Elephant and the Friends

A lone elephant in the forest looking for friends.

He met a monkey and asked, “Will you be ?” “You

are too big and cannot swing on trees as I do. So I cannot be your

friend”, said .

The elephant then met a rabbit and asked him if he could

“You are to fit inside my

burrow. You cannot be my friend”, replied .

The elephant asked a fox, and he got the same reply, that he
.

The next day, all the animals were running in fear. The elephant
stopped a bear and asked what was happening and was told that a tiger
has been attacking all the animals.

The elephant wanted to . He went

to the tiger and said “Please sir, leave my friends alone”. The tiger

did not listen. Seeing no other way, the elephant

kicked the tiger and scared it away. Elephant then

and told them what happened. After listening to

the elephant, the animals agreed , “You are just the

right size to be our friend”.

Moral: Friends come in all shapes and sizes!

b. Answer the following.
1. Who are the characters in the story? 
2. What do you like about them ?
3. Where does the story take place ?

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c. Read the following sentences.
i went to the park yesterday i had a great time i had a lot of fun

what did you do yesterday

Is something missing?

• A sentence always begins with a capital letter

and ends with a full stop.(.)

• Single ‘I’ is always capital.
• A question mark (?) is used at the end of a

question.

• Now read the sentences again.
I went to the park yesterday. I had a great time. I had a lot of fun.

What did you do yesterday?

d. Read the following sentences. Rewrite them in your notebook;
using capital letters, full stops and question marks at the
appropriate places.

1. i like to swim
2. can you sing
3. i love my family
4. what is your age
5. neeta went to school

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3.1 Mice UNIT
THREE
• Listen and repeat.

I think mice are rather nice.
Their tails are long,
their faces small,
They haven’t any
chins at all.

Their ears are pink,
their teeth are white,
They run about
the house at night.

They nibble things,
they shouldn’t touch
And no one seems
to like them much.
But I think mice are rather nice.

- Rose Fyleman

a. Answer the following questions.
1. Have you ever seen a mouse ?
2. What will you do if you see a mouse in your house ?

b. Match the following words.

long small pink white

teeth ears faces tails

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Let’s 3.2 Activity Time
play

a. Arrange the following words in alphabetical order.

mother

hen garden
peacock
axe

clock zebra boy
school
king temple dog
queen

balloon
father

1. axe 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.

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• Read aloud.

Sakshi’s box

Sakshi found a big box. She opened it.
There was a fairy and some paints in the box.
“Hello Sakshi, shall we do some painting ?” asked the fairy.
She gave Sakshi a paint brush.
First, they painted with violet and indigo colours.
Then, they painted with blue and green colours.
And then, they painted with yellow, orange and red colours.
Sakshi said, “Look at our rainbows!”
“Will your parents like our
rainbows?” asked the fairy.
“Yes!” said Sakshi. My parents
will like our rainbow pictures
and will say, “You have made a
beautiful painting!”
The fairy smiled and hugged
Sakshi. Sakshi said good bye to
the fairy.

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a. Colour the rainbow.

b. Write the names of the colours of the rainbow. (VIBGYOR)
,,,
,,
c. Answer the following.
1. Have you seen a rainbow?
2. Do you like to paint?
3. What is your favourite colour?
d. Frame the sentences using the words given below.
1. big : I saw a big blue balloon.
2. like :
3. fairy :

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3.3 Let’s Speak

a. Look at the pictures, listen and read aloud.
1. A girl is riding a bicycle.

2. A boy is climbing a tree.


3. A woman is driving a car.


4. A man is ironing clothes.


5. A girl is skipping a rope.


6. A man is driving a tractor.


7. A woman is planting rice-saplings.


8. A boy is riding a horse.


9. A girl is feeding a cow.

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3.4 Story Time - Nina’s Dream

• Listen and repeat.
Nina was a little girl.

She lived in a small village, near
Diveagar in Konkan.

Her parents worked in the field. Her
village was near the sea.

Her brother went to the grassland to
graze their cattle.

The older girls from her lane went to bring firewood from the forest.

Nina sat under a mango tree and
watched the birds, butterflies and
clouds. She too, wanted to fly like
them.

When she saw fishes in the sea, she
wanted to swim. When she saw the sea, she wanted to cross it and see
what is there on the other side.

After dinner when everyone slept in the front yard, she saw the
moon, the stars and wanted to touch them.

When her mother heard her wishes, she smiled and said, “Girls
cannot do all these things.”

Nina felt, “Will my wishes ever come
true?”

One day a smart lady came to their
village. She had a bag, some books and a
purse on her shoulder.

Nina ran to her and asked,

“Who are you? Are you going to live in
our village?”

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The lady smiled and said, “Yes. I am Rutuja. I am going to live
in your village. We are going to start an ‘Activity Centre’ here for the
little girls like you. I also lived and went to school in a small village
like this.”

Nina was happy. She held Rutuja’s hand and took her home. She
offered her some tea and laddoos.

Rutuja said, “Thank you, Nina. I am a pilot. But I have left the job
because I want to teach different things to
the little girls from villages.”

“A pilot? Really?” Nina was
jumping with joy. “See, mother! Girls
can fly!” Rutuja smiled and said,
“They can sail across the ocean too.”
Mother too was very happy. Nina ran out
to tell everyone about the new ‘Activity
Centre’.

a. Complete the following sentences by using the words and

phrases given in the box.

field, to graze their cattle, to bring firewood, village,
a smart lady, a little girl, pilot

1. Nina was a .

2. Nina lived in a .

3. Her parents worked in the .

4. Her brother went to the grassland .

5. The older girls went to the forest .

6. One day a came to their village.

7. The smart lady was a .

b. Find the opposite words of the following from the story.

far × big ×

back × false ×

younger × sad ×

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